benchilada | Dec. 22nd, 2008

Ugh. I've been out of the LJ loop off an on for a month now. It's been hard for me to find both the time and the motiviation.
It's not that I'm not still enjoying it, just that my brain seems to have totally broken my OCD need to read every entry and maybe broken something else in the process.

Something's changing in my brain and it's timing itself to possibly emerge by New Year's Day. Pity I can't figure out what the hell it is. It's like all the creativity I've been missing for months--drawing, writing, et cetera--has changed forms somehow and is bubbling just underneath my conscious mind.

Things is changing and I can't figure it out yet. For once I'm going to let my brain do its "WTF IS GOING ON?" shtick without me trying to figure out if I'm going to have some sort of nutso breakdown. Haven't had one of those in over a decade, so I'm gonna trust it to just go weird for a bit.

If only I did hallucinogenics.

ANYWAY...

Lovely wife Sara and I had

sarahsam and her boy Pedro over yesterday morning for brunch and crying, since they're moving to Seattle in...like, a few hours. Damn it.

Afterwards, we went to the home of

city_of_dis and

icayrus and

porpentine_4 (who was out of town) and had delicious chili and cornbread that

icayrus made and watched TWO OF THE BEST FUCKING MOVIES I'VE SEEN IN FOREVER.

First was Pulgasari, a North Korean movie made after Kim Jong-Il kidnapped a South Korean director and his actress wife and forced them to make a giant monster film for him. No, seriously. They managed to escape before the thing was completed. It was wretched, but in an immaculate MST3K way, so the dialogue that we all provided made it wonderful.

I cannot explain this film, so I'll just use info bursts:

Oppressed peasants. Crazed government officials. Monster that eats iron. Complete inability to show progression of time. Four sound effects. Throwing meatballs through a jail window. The one wall in the entire country. Wigs. Moral that was completely impossible to parse. Giant monster still wanting to eat iron. Cannon shaped like a general holding enormous fish under his arms, from whose mouths the cannonballs fire. Metaphysical incest.

Here's a clip I found on YouTube. Oh, and we think the beeping at the beginning of the scene was a production noise accidentally left in. In this scene, the giant monster--who is still tiny--comes to life and begins his life of iron-eating.

Incidentally, the movie is available on VHS or bootleg DVD, both subtitled. Also, there's a torrent of it out there and you can can watch the whole thing on Google video due to its copyright being pretty much imaginary. I highly recommend that you watch it with friends.

Next was Machine Girl, which was like having an orgasm every five minutes, with each one being better than the previous one, while also eating the best meal ever and killing evil people with only the sounds of your ecstasty.

I assure you, as awesome as this movie looks in the trailer, the film is FOUR HUNDRED TIMES MORE AWESOME THAN YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE.

Any attempt to describe it would only diminish its majesty.

Seriously, Sara said it would be okay if I kissed the main character if I ever saw her. Not the actress, the main character.

Finally, here's my new laptop, ~~Betty~~. Bettie (thanks for the correction,

fairyarmadillo ). She arrived the day after ~~Betty~~ Bettie Page died, so Sara gave her a perfect name. The last shot is of her and Bastard having their first heart-to-heart talk.